Discovery Sport stolen off driveway in broad daylight today

[Foxy1]

Our black discovery sport registration plate 0v15 FHS was stolen off our drive today in broad daylight, on Belvoir Road SE22 Btw 11am and 3pm

Please please can you get in touch of you saw anything or do spot the vehicle locally.

Thanks

Claire

[Roky Erickson]

I?m very sorry to hear !

Any idea how they managed to do it ?

[tiddles]

so sorry - no doubt they cloned the keys from inside. cannot believe they did it in broad daylight - any neighbours with CCTV or ring doorbells?

[mynamehere]

Car crime is happening up and down every street. The police are doing nothing. How should the law respond? How can we mount a unified petition for action? There is only strength in numbers.

[Penguin68]

I bought this parking barrier for my drive-way - it's not currently available (it was very good value) but there are alternatives.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078Z9QJP2?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_dt_b_product_details

[kford]

If its keyless entry, they bounce the signal from inside the house, open it and then just drive away.

[JohnL]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> I bought this parking barrier for my drive-way -

> it's not currently available (it was very good

> value) but there are alternatives.

>

> https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078Z9QJP2?psc=1&ref=p

> px_pop_dt_b_product_details

Yeah - as many things to make it difficult I'd say - they might be able to get around one or two or all of them but each hurdle makes it more difficult.

[bels123]

A cheap pouch from eBay stops this. Everyone with keyless entry keys needs to get one.

kford Wrote:

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> If its keyless entry, they bounce the signal from

> inside the house, open it and then just drive

> away.

[Townleygreen]

My car is keyless entry but you can't drive away unless the key is in the car. Is this harder to steal? Anyone know?

[Spartacus]

Townleygreen Wrote:

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> My car is keyless entry but you can't drive away

> unless the key is in the car. Is this harder to

> steal? Anyone know?

Depends

Do you have to press a button to unlock ? If so it's safer than the proximity keys that unlock as you approach the vehicle

However either way once in the car they can access the system and program it to accept a new key to start it

Things have progressed from using a crooklock to deter theft

[exdulwicher]

Some useful info here about theft of keyless vehicles.

https://www.driving.co.uk/news/features/six-ways-thieves-can-break-into-a-car-and-how-to-prevent-it/

[Townleygreen]

Spartacus wrote:

>Depends

>Do you have to press a button to unlock ? If so it's safer than the proximity keys that unlock as you approach the

>vehicle

>However either way once in the car they can access the system and program it to accept a new key to start it

Yes I have to press a button to unlock

[Flyingspur09]

Have you called the police and reported it as stolen? You also need to Call Land Rover UK and provide them with the VIN number just incase they try to sell it or change the number plates and pass it off as something different.

[malumbu]

Worked on a government project aimed at reducing car theft many years ago. This was high end stuff, where they cloned vin numbers so essentially when the RHD BM/Jag/Land/Range Rover was shipped to the Gulf it was not reported as stolen as it went with plates and VIN number from a car not reported as stolen. Not sure if this is still the MO of upmarket crims.

[redpost]

If the manufacturers truly cared they would come up with stronger security on the remote fobs, our mobile phones and bluetooth have strong encryption and key management so it's not rocket salad.

[dirty tree]

Do you have Landrover subscription app?

If not you can renew the subscription, download the app and it?ll show you where your car is.

[Sue]

😮😮😮

[Flyingspur09]

I don't think 2015 Discovery Sport has the LandRover apps function but I could be wrong?

[sweetgirl]

I just wanted to bring to your attention, some time ago a friend of mine who lives near ryedale told me about an incident that happened to their neighbour.

Basically someone trying to steal the wheels off their car, came one night & loosened all the nuts on all of the wheels in preparation to steal them the following night.

I'm guessing the plan was to put the car onto bricks & take the wheels.

Thankfully somehow they noticed..., as it could've costed them their lives!

Tbh I don't check my wheels before I drive off but considering the crime rate currently & we know it'll get worse it may be something worth considering